art history

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• 1/14/20
  

  Painter of Disquiet: Félix Vallotton at the Metropolitan Museum of Art'

  by Sam Ben-Meir

  Vallotton’s work unquestionably merits the renewed attention — his paintings possess a mysterious quality, narrative appeal, and attention to detail, as well as invoke a delicious sense of irony and wit.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  12/9/19
  

  An Art History Mystery with No Shortage of Sleuths

  Is a bronze statue discovered in France a 16th century Renaissance masterpiece or a (much less valuable) 17th century copy? Readers shared their theories, opinions and expertise.  

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• SOURCE: The Art Newspaper
  10/15/19
  

  Modern art historian, US museum director and clergyman EA Carmean, Jr has died, age 74

  He was the National Gallery of Art’s founding curator of 20th-century art and led the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  September 10, 2019
  

  When This German Artist Tried to Use His Work to Warn About Hitler, the World Ignored Him. It's Time to Listen

  by Mary M. Lane

  German painter George Grosz predicted the rise of the Nazi Regime through his art. Why did no one pay attention? 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/5/19
  

  Laure Adler and Camille Viéville's new book rewrites art history to include women

  A review of  “The Trouble with Women Artists." 

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  8/24/19
  

  Horace Pippin: From War to Peace Exhibit Showcases American History Through the Art of a Black WWI Soldier

  Horace Pippin was a self-taught artist out of necessity, as the society in which he lived had shut most of its doors on him.

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• 8/11/19
  

  Art and Defacement: Basquiat at the Guggenheim

  by Sam Ben-Meir

  The Guggenheim’s glance back to 1983 and the death of Michael Stewart accomplishes what art exhibitions should, but all too rarely do – it grants us perspective on our present moment.

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• 8/6/19
  

  Woodstock, The Moon Landing and Sesame Street, Too: 50 Years of American Cult Art

  by Bruce Chadwick

  The Norman Rockweel Museum is celebrating the year 1969 not with an exhibit about politics or history, but one about how artists showcased their work in that one, single year.

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• 7/30/19
  

  Leonardo da Vinci: Still a Genius 500 Years Later

  by Bruce Chadwick

  The Berkshire Museum, in Pittsfield, has a large and impressive exhibition called “Leonardo da Vinci: Machines in Motion,” produced by the Da Vinci Museum, in Florence, Italy.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/19/19
  

  75 Years After World War II Theft, a Painting Returns to Italy

  75 years after a German soldier made off with it, the small “Vase of Flowers” by Jan van Huysum returned. 

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• SOURCE: Art News
  6/22/2019
  

  Peter Selz, Curator and Art Historian Committed to the New, Is Dead at 100

  Peter Selz, whose enterprising curatorial vision helped shape the Berkeley Art Museum in California and the Museum of Modern Art in New York in the mid-20th century, died on Friday, according to the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives.

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• SOURCE: Daily Mail
  5/21/19
  

  Art Historian Timothy Clifford has identified the earliest known Michelangelo drawing

  This sketch of the Seated Man is said to be the earliest-known Michelangelo, created when he was aged around 12.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/15/19
  

  ‘We Are Amplifying the Work’: France Starts Task Force on Art Looted Under Nazis

  Once the art market was flooded with works that had belonged to those fleeing Vichy.

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• 4/21/19
  

  How the New Deal’s Federal Arts Programs Created a New American History

  by Nina Silber

  Without government funding, it would have been almost impossible for this alternative narrative to gain much of a foothold in the public imagination. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  4/15/19
  

  Art Historian Caroline Bruzelius Discusses The History Of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral

  NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with art historian Caroline Bruzelius about the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, which caught on fire Monday.

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• 3/19/19
  

  Andy Warhol: A Lot More than Soup Cans

  by Bruce Chadwick

  A review of the Whitney Musem's exhibit Andy Warhol – From A to B and Back Again and a reflection on the artist. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/19/19
  

  A half-century before the hashtag, artists were on the front lines of #MeToo

  by Vivien G. Fryd

  The cultural prominence of rape and sexual assault might be new. Efforts to bring attention to the issue, however, are not.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/12/19
  

  John Richardson, Art Historian and Picasso Biographer, Is Dead at 95

  A celebrated raconteur, Mr. Richardson was described by W magazine as “the man all New York wants to sit beside at dinner."

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• 3/17/19
  

  Why is the Mona Lisa not the Mona Lisa?

  by Jean-Pierre Isbouts and Christopher Brown

  New research suggests the famous painting in the Louvre does not depict Mona Lisa.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  2/2/19
  

  ‘It’s a Beatle haircut’: historian claims 15th-century portrait is from the 1960s

  National Gallery’s 1450 portrait by Rogier van der Weyden was created in the 1960s by Eric Hebborn, says art historian.